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On 5/8/06, achumakov@g.o <achumakov@g.o> wrote: |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Xavier Neys [mailto:neysx@g.o] |
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> > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:23 AM |
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> > To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage |
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> > Larry asked me not to top-post... |
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> > Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> > > In fact, I'd say it's _udderly_ disturbing. |
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> > > . . . *vanishes* |
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> > > |
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> > > Anyway, yes, our mascot has been along for the ride longer |
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> > than most |
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> > > of us have been on the project. I'd like to see him stick around. |
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> > > |
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> > > Thomas Cort wrote: |
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> > >>> On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:22:56 -0700 |
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> > >>> Joshua Jackson <tsunam@g.o> wrote: |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>>> I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website |
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> > redesign. Larry is |
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> > >>>> disappearing from the site. |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, |
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> > and would like to keep him around and improve his visibility |
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> > on the site. I think he makes a nice mascot for Gentoo. |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> ~tcort |
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> > The rumour has it that an ALF activist decided to free Larry |
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> > because it had to be as free as our code. |
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> > The truth is I found it alone in a pasture, it had lost its |
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> > appetite and felt very lonely. It begged of me to be allowed |
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> > back into Gentoo Land and asked me what it had done wrong to |
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> > be cast away like that. My friends, it was in tears, and I |
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> > joined it, I could not help it. |
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> > I decided to take it back home. |
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> > While we walked back, it mentioned it liked the text around |
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> > it very much, even though it can't read English very well. |
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> > Its language only has one vowel, the o, mostly used in pairs. |
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> > It wondered whether the Council should take care of this nice |
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> > aboot.xml page as well as the Social Contract and the Philosophy. |
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> > It also wondered why it had been given a male name because |
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> > Larry is a she. |
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> > I told her I didn't know the answer and she was not the only |
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> > case in Gentoo Land. |
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> > Larry is now resting in her stable and will be entertaining |
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> > you as soon as she has digested her first meal in more than a week. |
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> That's really wonderful, Xavier! |
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> -achumakov |
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